By By PAUL ELIAS MSN MONEY SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Trendy clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch has agreed to make religious accommodations and allow workers to wear head scarves as part of a settlement of discrimination lawsuits filed in California, lawyers announced Monday. The retailer will now allow hijabs, the […]
By Sharmine Narwani and Radwan Mortada A senior United Nations official who deals directly with Syrian affairs has told Al-Akhbar that the Syrian government had no involvement in the alleged Ghouta chemical weapons attack: “Of course not, he (President Bashar al-Assad) would be committing suicide.” When asked who he believed […]
Cairo, Egypt, Sep 23, 2013 / 01:03 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis has indicated respect “for Islam and Muslims” in a letter to the head of the main cultural institution of Sunni Islam, marking the end of Ramadan. Ahmed el-Tayeb, grand imam of al-Azhar University, perhaps the highest authority in […]
Huff Post – MOSCOW — Russia’s top Islamic cleric has protested a provincial court order to declare a translation of the Quran as extremist and to destroy it. Ravil Gainutdin, the head of the Council of Muftis of Russia, said in an open letter to President Vladimir Putin released Monday […]
Pak Tea House – As the nation comes to grip with the horrible massacre of Christians in Peshawar, Haider Maududi on Duniya TV (which shamelessly said “jo kachra saaf kartay thay un ka safaya ho giya) decided to muddy the waters by claiming that this was bound to happen in […]
By Schams Elwazer, CNN updated 3:40 PM EDT, Mon September 23, 2013 (CNN) — An Egyptian court Monday ordered a ban on activities of the Muslim Brotherhood and froze its finances, according to state-run news website EgyNews. The move is the latest in an anti-Muslim Brotherhood crackdown that began when […]
Epigraph: We prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land — it […]
Teen prodigy finds home at Waterloo’s Perimeter Institute Toronto Star, 22/9/2013 After a month at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Jacob Barnett is thrilled. The young genius, diagnosed with autism at age two, is happy to have found a place where he can do what he loves, reports […]
Source: The Daily Beast Pakistani Church Bombing Kills Dozens http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2013/09/23/pakistani-church-bombing-kills-dozens-photos.html#0414f32e-1388-47e0-8d46-01ba0ea355b6 Were Americans Among the Al-Shabab Nairobi Mall Attackers? by Jamie DettmerSep 23, 2013 5:45 AM EDT Somalia’s al Qaeda affiliate says three Americans joined its assault on an upscale shopping mall in Nairobi that left at least 68 dead. Jamie […]
Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has surely […]
Source: zeenews.india.com Zee Media Bureau/Supriya Jha Nairobi: The attackers of Kenya’s Westgate mall who spoke in Swahili and targeted non-Muslims, killed an Indian only because he couldn’t tell what was the […]
OnIslam & News Agencies Monday, 23 September 2013 00:00 The Muslim council confirmed its support to the security and government organs during the difficult time that Kenya faces. NAIROBI – […]
BERLIN (AP) – A Senegal-born chemist has become Germany’s first black federal lawmaker, and a woman of Turkish origin has become the first Muslim elected to Parliament from Chancellor Angela […]
Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, is hosting the Islamic Solidarity Games participated by a large number of athletes from Islamic states. The Islamic Solidarity Games kicked off […]
The Express Tribune: So mindful were the Christians of Muslim sentiments that when they built Peshawar’s All Saints Church in 1882, they made it look like a mosque. Local artists […]
Epigraph: And say to the believing women that they restrain their eyes and guard their private parts, and that they disclose not their natural and artificial beauty except that which is apparent thereof, and that they draw their head-coverings over their bosoms. (Al Quran 24:32) First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in […]
Greeted by delegates of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at from Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, arrived safely […]
(Reuters) – An Egyptian court on Monday banned the Muslim Brotherhood from carrying out any activities in the country, widening a campaign to debilitate the Islamist movement of deposed President Mohamed Mursi. “The court bans the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood organization and its non-governmental organization and all the activities […]
Dawn.com: by Nadeem F. Paracha – Are we an occupying force? Is our military an occupying force in the north-west of Pakistan? Should we negotiate its safe exit first from KP so the extremists are free to do whatever they like, first in the KP, then in the rest of […]